Party of Five (TV Series)

The Intervention (1997)

Neve Campbell: Julia Salinger

Quotes 

• Joe Mangus : Bailey, your father was an alcoholic... just like you. Belive me, I was there. I've known him all my life. He was sober for 18 years before he died. But for many years before that, years...

  Bailey Salinger : Bull! That's a load of crap! I don't believe you! I thought that you couldn't get any lower then what they did. Lying about Owen. Saying he was hurt to get me to come over here, but you... you son of a bitch!

  Joe Mangus : Come on, Bailey.

  Bailey Salinger : What do you think? You think that just because he's dead you can say anything you want about him?

  Joe Mangus : He'd want you to know if he were alive right now. He'd want me to tell you.

  Bailey Salinger : My father was not an alcoholic! I am NOT an alcoholic! Get out of here, Joe. Get the hell out of here! I don't need to listen to this!

  [to Charlie] 

  Bailey Salinger : Have you heard this load of crap? Have you? Or, hey this was probally your genius idea, right? Let's get Joe to say that Dad... Nick Salinger, was a drunk and then maybe...

  Charlie Salinger : Joe... is that true?

  Julia Salinger : [as Joe nods]  I don't believe it.

  Bailey Salinger : You see?

  Charlie Salinger : He didn't... I would have known.

  Joe Mangus : You were just a little kid when he quit, Charlie. You were only six when he stopped drinking for good. You were probably too young to recognize the signs.

  Charlie Salinger : What signs?

  Joe Mangus : As far back as you can remember to when you were six, do you remember him coming home from the restaurant late every night, and I would always be with him when he walked in the front door?

  Julia Salinger : That doesn't mean... look, he had a business to run.

  Charlie Salinger : He liked hanging out with you and the guys late after work, shooting the bull...

  Joe Mangus : And drinking... a lot.

  Julia Salinger : No.

  Joe Mangus : Honey, I was the one who had to drive him home night after night from the restaurant because he was so drunk that he couldn't drive himself. That's why I was always with him when he came home. Remember, Charlie?

  Julia Salinger : [to Charlie]  Did he?

  Charlie Salinger : [in denial]  I don't know. I don't remember.

  Joe Mangus : Come on. I think you do. Don't you remember the fights and arguments he had with your mother afterwords? The shouting behind closed doors? It was very bad for a long time. If he hadn't gotten the help he needed when he did, he might not have lived to...

  Julia Salinger : But I never saw him drunk or take a drink in my life. Not once. Not even a bottle of beer or a glass of wine.

  Joe Mangus : That's right. And why do you think? Not a drop, not an ounce, nothing. He owned a restaurant. Hell, he owned a bar. Why never a sip? Because he knew he couldn't... ever. That's what it's like to be an alcoholic.